COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG

COCKNEY RHYMING SLANG

What a surprise!!!! For me that is difficult enough to understand p English speaking people, to discover there are so many accents and so different forms to speak English depending of the area where people is living . This make me the things more difficult…
But in spite of that I go to the Goggle as Felicity suggest as to find more information about Cockney Rhyming Slang
And I have found some interesting thinks that help me to understand better this king of language that I want to write to you.

Cockney Rhyming Slang is a coded language invented in the 19th century by Cockneys so they could speak in front of the police without being understood.
It uses a phrase that rhymes with a word, instead on the word itself .
For example.
“stairs” becomes apples and pears
“phone” becomes dog and bone
The cockney language can be traced back to the early part of the 19th century , when Sin Robert Peel formed the fist police force stationed at Bow street, People living here belonged to the lowest class of the society, and they had a lot of problems with the Police, so they invented this kind of language to hide the true meaning of discussions from the Police and the informers for the Police.

But Who is a Cockney????
A cockney traditionally is a person born within hearing distance of the sound of Bow bells, meaning within the sound of the bells of the Church of Saint Mary Le Bow in Cheapside, London, and refers to an East London accent, however to most people living outside London the term Cockney means a Londonder….

The I want to write you some amusing examples:

He rarely using his loaf of bread means He rarely using his head
He’s always telling porkies, means He is always telling lies
Pull on yer weasel means put on your coat
You have got a lovely set of Bacons means You have got love legs
The currant bun’s hot today means The sun shines hot today
She is always on the dog means She is always on the phone

I was amusing me discovering the meaning of the different sentences
Buy for the English society this is not a game, because Cockney Rhyming Slang , is like a kind of culture and behaviour in London, not in the 19th century, nowadays too…because in “el Periodico” newspaper I found last Saturday an article about a punk group “The Cockney Rejects” that will play in the Razzmatazz pub
This group was founded in 1977, his members belonged to the London worker class and the Jamaican Immigrants…without any political context and his most famous song is “Oi Oi Oi” and with his last song ”Unforgiven” they want to translate the rhythm of OI to the 21 century…
Maybe you that are younger that me know the history of this music complex formed by four musicians.
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